“This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.” PeopleMayCountryShowsFeelingsBlackAspectPoliceAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleSkepticism Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.” ImportantIdeasSometimesLightBlackSpaceEnvironmentConditionsAspectTestsFundamentalsExtremesHolesShedTime And SpaceTheoreticalLaboratoryExoticAnalyzingBlack Hole Author:Brian Greene
“As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.” WayDifferentSelfWholeBlackIdentityAcceptanceComfortableAspectCommittedFeministSexualityMeaningfulOppressionDestructiveIngredientsWay To LivePluck Author:Audre Lorde
“Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.” WayWritingMadeAmericaFeltBlackTermDifferencesPositionPerspectiveUniqueAspectFilmmakerSuperiorityLoftySubtlety Author:Ruby Dee
“Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.” IfsAmericaBlackFocusGoes OnAspectHip HopContraryHipsHopsDiverseBlack America Author:Prince
“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.” MayUnderstandingBlackRaceDangerousRacismConceptsAspectNotionFolksInsightAfrican AmericanRacistOverwhelmingScholarshipValiditySexist Author:Bell Hooks
“I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.” YearsKindArtDifferentLastsCultureBlackAspectAppreciationParisLast YearBlack CultureAfrican Culture Author:Lenny Kravitz
“It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.” ThinkingLooksSidesBlackClassMiddleMovementAspectConnectionsSurpriseObviousMiddle ClassPhenomenonProfitableBlacknessSurprise MeCommodification Author:Angela Davis
“There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?” PeopleKnowsHumansStillsBlackWhiteAspectSexualityBlack And White Author:Sasha Grey